Hi
I don't know whether you created custom aspect properly. If you want to create custom aspect, you need to create model file and register it through context file.You can place these files in tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension. In extension folder you may find "exampleModel.xml.sample", make a copy of that file in same folder(extension) and remove its .sample extension and make .xml file. After that, edit imports if you want to inherit some aspect defined in other content model this comes under <imports> tag. If you don't want inheritance , keep it as it is. Under <namespaces> tag create your namespace by giving unique URI and prefix. Remove the <types> element. And edit the <aspects> element and define your custom aspect there by giving it's name and add your custom properties in <properties> element. Also in order to make your property indexed add index tag and define its enabled attribute to "true" as code snippet given below:
<index enabled="true">
<tokenised>TRUE</tokenised>
<facetable>false</facetable>
</index>
At this stage you created custom model which contains your aspect. In order to make alfresco to know your model register it with spring bean from a context file. You can also get sample context file example-model-context.xml, copy it and change its extension as you did before and in that file edit <beans> element and change bean id. And also change the path of the model file to the model file created by you.
After restart of alfresco service this model will be created and you can apply your aspect to any content in repository and can also search its properties through REST API or CMIS or alfresco share.
Here I am assuming you are using share. In order to make your aspect visible to share, edit share-config-custom.xml file present in tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension(create if it is not present). Add aspect created by you to <visible> element. And you can edit or create advanced search forms through by placing this code in the same file.
Refer this code if you want to register your own advanced search form
<config replace='true' evaluator='string-compare' condition='AdvancedSearch'>
<advanced-search>
<forms>
<form labelId='search.form.label.cm_content' descriptionId='search.form.desc.cm_content'>cm:content</form>
<form labelId='search.form.label.cm_folder' descriptionId='search.form.desc.cm_folder'>cm:folder</form>
</forms>
</advanced-search>
</config>
And Refer this code to create or edit form
<config evaluator='model-type' condition='cm:folder'>
<forms>
<form id='doclib-common'>
<field-visibility>
<show id='cm:name' />
<show id='cm:title' force='true' />
<show id='cm:description' force='true' />
</field-visibility>
<create-form template='../documentlibrary/forms/doclib-common.ftl' />
<appearance>
<field id='cm:title'>
<control template='/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/textfield.ftl' />
</field>
</appearance>
</form>
<form id='search'>
<field-visibility>
<show id='cm:name' />
<show id='cm:title' force='true' />
<show id='cm:description' force='true' />
</field-visibility>
</form>
</forms>
</config>
For further details you can go through this link
Apart from share, if you are using CMIS then you can search your properties through query. Or you can also search it by REST APIs provided by alfresco.
Thanks,
Kalpesh
ContCentric
